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Open source becomes paid software in 2009
One of the biggest misconceptions in software is that open source equals free. The early commercial open-source vendors like MySQL and JBoss were able to build decent businesses on top of a license/support-only business model, but over time we’ve seen that approach become difficult to grow beyond a certain threshold.
I suspect that in 2009 it [...]